The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


29115c. Rye--No. ], 4411Ic. Barley, 611lc.
At Rockville, Wood County, John P
Anderson, Swe1e, was instantly killed
few days ago while at work rolling down,
logs at the skidway of Daups mill
The side wheel steamer City of Ashland
took hre and burned to the waters edge.
the other day about six miles from Ash
land. She was on her way from Bad
river with raft of logs for the Superior
Lumber Company. A crew of six men
/ were on board, i've of whom were picked
/ up by tugs. The other was supposed to
/ have drowned.
Andy Van Matre the coroner of La Fay
| cite County, had his back broken recently
while he was unloading railroad iron from
car.
Mr.. anu Mrs. Victor Lowe, of Palmyra,
celebrated The twenty fifth anniversary Oh
their weddin g a few days ago.
A FIRE the other afternoon destroyed the
feed and supply store of William O'Neil &
| Co, of Washbu1-n. The stock was insured
| tor 81, 600
! Six men W ere d. rad and one was suffering
severely from the effects OF the explosion
of beer kettle in Rahr's brewery al
| Green Bay the other night. The names Of
the dead are: John b smers August Del
tonge and his two sons, Joseph and Frank,
! George Haibe, j. B. HA ibe. These men
were SO Thoroughly scaIde / that they died
| during the night Henry Zifert, the re-
naming sufferer, would ,ecover. Del
fonge and Bismert leave fam lies, but the
rest were unmarried The ca Use of the
| explosion was unknown. The Ii attle had
seventy barrels of boiling wateAr, which
| poured over the unfortunate me IL literal
| y cooking their flesh.
| Reports were recently received at Ba,,a-
boo that B. <. Cowles, of that city, had
been indicted at Sitka for libeling Gov
ernor Swineford, of Alaska, by charging;
that Swineford pocketed funds appro-
i priated by the Government for the Alaska
exhibit at New Orleans.
The forest fires that resulted in con-
| siderable damage to standing pine on the;
upper tributaries of the Black river east
of Eau Claire have heen extinguished
from the copious showers. Several
! logging firms are losers by the total de-
struction of their hay intended for con-,
sumption in the pneries the coming,
winter,
The wife Of August Staeber, residing:
n ear WatertOtYn, was found dead in bed
the other morning
The work of rebuilding Marshfeld from
its fire ruins of June q is going steadily
forward About eleven hundred masons,
workmen, carpenters and general laborers
are at work on the different store build
ings, manufactures and residences.
Burglars stole S21S from the depot at
! Summit Lake, Langlade County, few
days ago.
There are 81, 760 pensioners in the Me-
waukee agency, among them being thirty
five survivors of the war of 1912 and 2S3;
of the Mexican war. The disbursements.
of the agency during the past year amount.
ed to 50. 999, 200
There are already twenty-six artesiap
wells at Sparta, Monroe County, aud new;
ones are being added frequently.
One of the relics of the Hurley fire is
spike around which glass had been melted,
and in the glass is imbedded piece Of the
skull of one of the victims. 1t was picked
up on the site of the Alcazar theater.
The barn, granery and other outbuild~
ings of farmer named Duessler, in the
town of Portland, Dodge County, were
/ burned to the ground few days ago with
all of his grain, a span of horses ana
twelve hogs. His second son, aged ten
years, was lost in the flames while trying
to rescue the horses.
Bonds Falls is a new town Just plated.
few miles north Of Watersmeet. A fall
eighty two feet in height will furnish good
water power. There are also good indica-
tons of iron.
Annie McCartey, of Wrigntstown,.
Brown County, was thrown from wagon
by runaway team recently and her neck
was broken.
The oldest person in Palmyra, Scheub Der
Wheeler, died at his residence the other
morning, aged nearly ninety years. He.
leaves wife and daughter.
barn belonging to John McGilton. in
the town of fainter, Eau Claire County,
which contained hay, grain and eight
horses, was struck by lightning a few
days ago and five of the horses were
made deaf. The stroke was a severe ope,
but, strange to cay, the animals escaped
other injury, and the barn was not
burned.
Alexander Mcdonald was arrested a few
days ago at Eau Claire for assault upon a.
seven-year-old daughter of M, Gilbert, a
farmer living in that vicinity.
fire started recently on the north side.
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road track in Shields, Jefferson County,
and in it's progress destroyed about forty.
two tons of hay. A number of fences were.
burned. Dwellings and barns were saved
by the farmers for miles around turning
out and blowing up the land surrounding
the buildings.
Governor Rusk has appointed Miss Ella
A. Giles, of Madison, and Rev. F. A. De
Paradies, of Elroy, additional delegates to
the National Conference of Charities and
Corrections which convenes in Omaha
September 25.
A barn belonging to j. Thorn, in the.
town of Trimbelle, Pierce County, was.
fired by lightning the other day and con-
sumed with all its contents, including fifty
tons of hay.
A disease resembling severe cholera
morbus was recently reported as alarm
ingly prevalent in Hazel Green, Grant
County. Seven persons in one household,
and often three or four in others, were I'M
der physicians care.
A barn on the farm of Thomas Fox, near
Osseo, Trempealeau County, with con-
tents, consisting of hay and farm nipple
ments, valued at $1,000, was destroyed by
fire few days ago. The fire originated
from sparks from an engine.
Rev David Seymour, Methodist minis
ter, created a sensation at GAINESVILLE q
few days ago by running away with Mrs
John A. Henry, a young widow of that
his wife and five children, who were in
destitute circums tances, and the widow
left two children, The elder boy ofseven.
The pair were supposed to be in Canada.
About four million feet of lumber has
been shipped from Ashland thus far this
season to points west of the Mississippi
river.
A wind-storm the other night did great
damage. In the vicinity of Waupun hay
stacks and barns were leveled on all sides,
and Frank Johnson, farmer, was buried
under the debris Of his barn and killed.
A number Of bridges in Fond du Lac
County were swept away. At HORIZON a
number of buildings were unroofed. Ig-
Mathis Jantz, farmer, was killed by light
ming near Ripon. Apple and other trees
in the path Of the storm were stripped Of
their fruit.
The citizens of Plymouth subscribed $106
for the railroad eating-house girls who
lost their effects by the recent fire.
Black river is being spauned with iron